Author Archives: animhym
Coffee Fortune
Savta is right: I cannot let my heart make decisions as its split sometimes divides me between wisdom and pain.
Ode to Bethlehem on Christmas Day
Two years ago on this blessed day: I remember the walk from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. I remember the young couple from South Korea who joined me on my wander. I remember crowded security lines and barbed-wire fences; I remember an … Continue reading
IV.
The Electricity flickered: Lights off and televisions off (well…like for some). And like a flash- back to yesterday— Oh! and the WIFI’s on!
III.
A rose thrown into the room: is it a flower or a stone?I suppose even stones crumble.
II.
And there’s that man without a face. You’ll never shine that flashlight on him, because you know he’ll stay black, ’cause you’ve calculated the time light travels “from him to me.” What you perceive now might not be what he … Continue reading
I’m tapping into my b(right) b(rain) tonight!
I saw Dada playing foosball with taxidermied squirrels.
I.
Get up here right now, little boy! Or else get beat! But down there on the ground he sits And seals his lips and clasps his fists, And glares right at me bitter-eyed: “Father,” he says, “I won’t decide! I … Continue reading